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• The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

  Kurt Hahn

  Doe, Steadfastness

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• In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Military, Detours, Chance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

  Vimala McClure

  Wise, Mother, Matter

  Vimala McClure (2011). “The Tao of Motherhood”, p.47, New World Library

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• Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

  David Amerland

  Real, Media, Giving

  David Amerland (2015). “The Social Media Mind: How social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order”, p.59, New Line Publishing

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• It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.

  Helen Bevington

  Art, Ideas, Vision

  Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”

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• A purpose statement is, in essence, a written-down reason for being. Jesus' mission helped him decide how to act, what to do, and even what to say when challenging situations arose. Clarity is power: Once you are clear about what you were put here to do then 'jobs' become only a means toward accomplishing your mission, not an end in themselves.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Jesus, Jobs, Mean

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• Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

  Roberto Giobbi

  Writing, Gestures, Scripts

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• One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

  Matt Cohler

  Jobs, Mistake, Goes On

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• I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.

  Lauren Faust

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Party, Trying, Slipping

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Style

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• The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.

  Claude Bernard

  Imagination, Truth Is, Scientist

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• Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Noses, World

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• Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

  Albert Einstein

  Principles, Raw Materials, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Thinking, Choices, Weakness

  "Pretty Deadly creators Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios, on second arc". Interview with Andrea Towers, ew.com. November 17, 2015.

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• Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

  Howard Shore

  Use, Want, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Merit, Substitutes

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

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• Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Would Be, Speech

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

  William Safire

  Color, Grace, Style

  William Safire (2011). “Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire”, p.541, Random House

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• So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jealous, Writing, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Clarity proceeds Mastery!

  Robin Sharma

  Mastery

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2015

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• Yet there are those who wonder.  There are those who have gentle stirrings.  And there are those who have stepped upon the beautiful threshold of awareness - all on the verge of perceiving that which there is to see.  To these ones, I say, open  your exquisite senses.  Look with fine clarity into that which is beyond and beneath, within and without.  In these coming critical times, listen to and heed the directives of your spirits that retain the high wisdom you are just now perceiving.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Beautiful, Looks, Spirit

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• Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Omission, Challenges, Would Be

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• If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Wish, Alive, May

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Ideas, Might, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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